Went to the lake today after being off the water for a month. Rain has caused the water to rise a bunch and the water is flowing over the spillway. Theres debris(sticks,brown scum) all over the place and the water is a stained brown color. Now theres all kinds of trees and brush in the water too.

Now my question. How do I approach this recent change? The shoreline has changed and well its just like fishing a whole new lake. Im sorta intimidated by this. The spots I used to target arent there anymore. Sould I wait till the water and the debris has settled and the water stops spilling over to fish there again? I went out today and things were tough. Got a few bites and I believe they were Bluegill. I did manage to hook into 2 small Bass though,Lost one at the boat and the other Came off as I was getting ready to lip it.

Will a change in the water conditions like I have described cause fish to become inactive/more active? What does this do( in general) to the "bite"?

How do you all handle/deal with changes in water condition?

In shallow lakes bass like to move to newly flooded areas because their forage has done it to take advantage of the situation, lots of insects, worms n 'such get trapped and isolated by the flood so forage fish move there, also, water flowing at the spillway creates current on boths sides of it, those areas near the spillway are also productive.

In steep sloping deep lakes bass only rise in the water column.

How do you all handle/deal with changes in water condition?

Water gets dirty ---> time to bring my rattling baits, fat bodied cranks with rattles, big bladed hammer finished spinnerbaits, rattling jigs, C tail grubs and worms.